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D. KARGER CAP Dec. 20, 1927.

`leaieiaefi Dec. 2o,y 1927. 'i 1,653,181

IuN ITED sT A T E s Pareri T Ifo-Es. vDAVID KARGER, F MILWAUi-KEE, WISCONSIN.

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Application filed. kJune 7, 1923. Serial No. 643,996.

My invention relates to caps, more particthese flaps are in their upper or non-use posi ularly knitted caps, and is concerned with tion, folded againstthe crown, they appear' that type of cap wherein protecting portions as in Figure 1, and when in their lo'weredor i for the back of the neck and the ears of the in-use position, pending downwardly, they 5 wearer are provided and wherein such proappear as in Figure 2, sothat they form ear k5F tecting portions may be placed in and out ot mul's for the wearer. f use, Y The flaps e, e are held in their upper posi- My invention contemplates an improved tion, and with them the4 band c, by means oit structure whereby different knit stitches may buttons f, f respectively, sewed onto the V l be employed respectively for different parts. crown in the position shown, and passing 60 By the use of myy invention uniformity of through button holes g, g respectively, prop-l formation may obt-ain notwithstanding the erly disposed in the respective flaps. The use of different knit ystitches for diferent flap e has a button 7L sewed on the inner parts, as distinguished from peculiar or par- (when in raised position) side thereof, near l5 ticular formation for each kind of knit stitch the end, and this button passes through the 6 or combinations of stitches. Thus a manubuttonhole g in the flap e when the flaps are facturer may maintain a uniform style or in the lowered position, as shown in Figure 2 design. and yet offer, in such style or design, and in dotted lines in Figure 3. `Thus are a variety of knit stitches or combinations of the ends of the flaps `ioined together below stitches. f the chin of the wearer.v When the flap e. is y" In t-he drawings: in its raised position, this button L is hidden Figure l is one side elevational view, showbehind it. f ing the neck and ear protecting portions in The band c, from ypoint y' to point lo is of the out-of-use position; luniform width. It is preferably made of a Figure 2 is the opposite side elevationaly stitch which lends'itself to .stretchin width, 75 view, showing thek neck and ear protecting while the fla-ps are preferably made of firmer portions in the in-use position; and knit. vIt will be noted that bythe formation Figure 3 is a rear elevational view showing described the downward and kforward pull of the out-of-use positions of the neck and ear the flaps, when joined below the chin of the ao protecting yportions in full lines and their wearer,.is through an intervening triangularso in-use positions in dotted lines. .f portion, so that when the band, or at least The cap of my invention comprises prithe triangular portion thereof, is made of a y marily a heini-spherical knitted crown a. stitch which will lend itself thereto, thispull Appended to the lower margin b of the will beaccommodat-ed without requiring the the back of the crown and forwardly to a. ,out of shape. point beyond the center, so that when .in its The cap illustrated isa specificembodiupper or non-use position, folded againstthe ment of my invention to which the appended crown, it appears as in Figurel, and when in claims are more or less broadly or specilically 40 its lowered or iii-use position, pending downdrawn. By actual manufacture, I have demy90 wardly, it appears as in Figure 2, so that it onstrated that the band o may be of plain, will .then encircle the back of the neck ofthe rack'or half cartigan knit, and the `llaps c, e wearer and will extend forwardlyto a 'point may be of plain rack or halt cartigan knit or forward of l*the earss ofk the wearer. any combination may be employed, or even Joined to the free yends of the band c, on portions of either may be variously knitted the oblique lines d, al', respectively, which lie ,withouty departing from the formation I have approximately tothe crown Vmargin b, described. i are the flaps e, e, respectively, the long axes I claim: p s y of the flaps lyingl approximately at right 1. A knitted cap comprising a substan-v -5 crown a is a band c which extends around flaps themselves to do so or pulling the crown` sa,

angles to the long axis of the band. When tially hemiesphericalcrown,a portion of one kind of knit appended to the lower margin thereof in the region of the ears, flaps of thereofin the region of the eers, and flaps of another kind of knit appended from said another kind of knit appended from Said `pOlOIl 0X1 aline Oblique C0 Said margin, and 10 portion on :L line oblique to said margin. a neck portion joining' said portions.

5 2. A knitted Cep Comprising a substan- In Witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe tizilly heini-spherical crown, a portion of one my naine this 5th day of June, 1923. kind of knit appended to the lower margin DAVID KARGER. 

